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Pokémon GO: bots and other hacks might end soon in Permanent Ban

Aug

15

2016

Actually, it should not surprise anyone: Niantic Labs – the developer of the popular Augmented Reality Games Ingress and Pokémon GO – seems the screw against cheaters and Co. finally attracting. So far, there was still a number of players possible to use GPS Faking tools or Level bots to gain an unfair advantage in the game. This should now soon be concluded when the text of a set up for the case of a Perma-Bans site takes a closer look under the microscope. A link may be distributed unfairly bans is available here.

To be more specific, Niantic finally wants its Terms of Service (ToS) prevail. What exactly is meant by, you can see the page:

“This includes, but is not limited to: falsifying your location, using emulators, modified or unofficial software and / or Accessing Pokemon Go clients or backends in on unauthorized manner Including through the use of third party software”

Just GPS Faker, emulators and other software, the unauthorized access to the client of the Games or offer its backend, standing on the hit list. Pretending false GPS positions through various apps and tools familiar to the developers already from his first hit “Ingress”. In Pokémon GO is now also again called bots that completely automatically run predefined routes and patterns and so heave the account of the fraudster without any assistance ratzfatz to the maximum level. Faires gameplay looks different.

“Our goal is to Provide a fair, fun and legitimate game experience for everyone. We will continue to work with all of you to improve the quality of the gameplay, Including ongoing optimization and fine tuning of our anti-cheat system. “- Niantic

Exactly how the company now wants to identify such interventions and, accordingly, would really reliable punish only the corresponding cheat, is still unclear. Operators of card services as the popular side “PokeVision.com” were warned not long ago by omission letter.